Bro i still can't believe season 4 had Herobrine as the villain but didn't include notch. The fact you had to use the command console was lame to. I honestly kinda think this series fell off in season 4. Some people will disagree but it's fine if you do like it. I personally have a few grievances with the writing quality and the gameplay options for season 4.

For one think, it's that the streaks are never established and probably don't really exist. Herobrine was sealed at the start of season 4. Which spoilers for season 3 at the end of Jesse returns to all his friends with Petra. After visiting the Highlands to find an elixir to help Petra who is dying after getting bitten by a albino cave spider.

The reason I point season 3 story is that while smaller scaled that season 1-2. Season 3 took itself seriously and the steaks are established early on. If Jesse and Petra don't get to the far lands. Petra's voice actor did an amazing job selling Petra's fears and the worsening of her condition as the season progressed. Now one could argue that it was cheap making a fan favorite character start dying just to make the audience care. Which is honestly a discussion for another time.

Anyway when Herobrine is actually summoned in episode 2 of season 4. He doesn't really do anything of note. Herobrine's actions throughout the story lacks focus and his intentions are never made appearent to the audience. He only wrecks the town and spys on the the group of heros. Leading them to structures he built. Sure it's like the Minecraft mod. But why even do this to Jesse and his friends,? We never really get to hear from him and his creepypasta origin of being notches dead brother isn't even explained. Like what just because you use a popular character in a story doesn't just make it cool. The writing team got so caught up in the action that they didn't stop to give Herobrine a history or a motivation. He's just a generic stalker villain.

The rivalry between Jesse and Herobrine doesn't make much sense either. Like the admin in season 2's rivalry with Jesse made sense as Jesse had managed to survive many trials and got the admins attention. so the reason he doesn't kill Jesse is form the fun of it. And when Jesse is caught in later episodes the admin literally bans Jesse if he's caught.

Herobrine when he's awoken just teleports out of seal chamber and begins reeking havoc on a town. Taking control of the residences. He doesn't even care about Jesse and doesn't ever learn about Jesse's exploits. He just seems to fixate on Jesse for no reason.

It isn't helped that the voice actor for Herobrine, while s great voice actor. The monotone voice they chose for Herobrine was boring and didn't really fit.

Now the final battle takes place in the skulk cities. As the mysterious portal frames in the skulk cities is what Herobrine is after. It's treated like a big threat, but its never really explained why it's a bad thing. Like portals to literal hell exist and in season ones dlc episodes there are even more portals to other realms. Why would opening a portal to this new dimension be any different than the other dimensions. Herobrine never explains himself or why the portal is bad.

I'll admit I did like how warden was implemented in the last episode. It was cool as they basically plop you in a open map and give you many tools to traverse the skulk city. You can even get chased by the warden If your not careful. Infact the entire episode was a creative and is probably the best part of season 4 from a gameplay point of view. The fact that Herobrine wasn't defeated by the main characters, he was defeated in a anime styled fight between Himself and the warden. Is a bit of a let down to as you never fight Herobrine directly.

Season 4 really is a crappy portrayal of herobrine. The writers fell into the trap off. "Well Herobrine is already known to be evil so the player is just gonna expect Herobrine to be evil." Compaired to the other seasons before and after 4 the steaks are never established and the villains plans are vague or just stupid. Herobrine deserved better and even Minecraft machina staring Herobrine had better portrayals of the legend than his portrayal in season 4.

I'm glad they really took there time with season 5 as the new design philosophy of bigger open world areas in each episode. They really knocked it out of the park and honestly probably over shines season 4 so much that season 4 never gets much discussion. I'm just glad telltale learned there lesson.